Mercedes Ruehl
Acting • Born 1948-02-28
Biography
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden Globe. Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play Lost in Yonkers (1990) and supporting performance in the film The Fisher King (1991). Her other film credits include Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Roseanna's Grave (1997), and Hustlers (2019). She also played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBO's Entourage.
Filmography
73 credits
The Fisher King
Movie • 1991
Anne
Doctors of the Dark Side
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Big
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Baskin
Married to the Mob
Movie • 1988
Connie Russo
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Movie • 2006
Sylvia Guerrero
The Minus Man
Movie • 1999
Jane
Another You
Movie • 1991
Elaine
Last Action Hero
Movie • 1993
Irene Madigan
Lost in Yonkers
Movie • 1993
Bella Kurnitz
More Dogs Than Bones
Movie • 2000
Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
84 Charing Cross Road
Movie • 1987
Kay
Crazy People
Movie • 1990
Dr. Liz Baylor
Roseanna's Grave
Movie • 1997
Roseanna
Slaves of New York
Movie • 1989
Samantha
Bad Apple
Movie • 2004
Lorraine Gibbons
Zeyda and the Hitman
Movie • 2004
Esther
Out of the Cold
Movie • 1999
Tina
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
Movie • 2000
Jane Newhall
The Nana Project
Movie • 2023
Nana
The Amati Girls
Movie • 2001
Grace
Guilt by Association
Movie • 2002
Susan Walker
On Hope
Movie • 1994
The Lost Child
Movie • 2000
Rebecca
Disclosure
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Chu and Blossom
Movie • 2014
Mrs. Fefterg
The Secret of My Success
Movie • 1987
Sheila
Mom's On Strike
Movie • 1984
Sandy
Loving Leah
Movie • 2009
Janice
Mom at Sixteen
Movie • 2005
Terry Jeffries
Twisted
Movie • 1985
Cybelle
Doubt
Movie • 2013
Mrs. Syd Newman
Gia
Movie • 1998
Kathleen Carangi
What's Cooking?
Movie • 2000
Elizabeth Avila
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Movie • 1989
Party Guest (uncredited)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Movie • 1995
Lael Rubin
The Warriors
Movie • 1979
Policewoman
People Not Places
Movie
Leader of the Band
Movie • 1987
Miss Cooper
North Shore Fish
Movie • 1997
Florence
Spooky House
Movie • 2002
Boss
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Movie • 2015
Self
Heartburn
Movie • 1986
Eve
Goldstar, Ohio
Movie • 2010
Adriana Rock
Hustlers
Movie • 2019
Mother
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
Movie • 2016
Self
Subway Stories
Movie • 1997
Leyla (segment "Underground")
Radio Days
Movie • 1987
Ad Man
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Movie • 1976
American girl in casino
Four Friends
Movie • 1981
Woman in Taxi
Star Spangled Banners
Movie • 2013
Rosalind Banner
Kate & Allie
TV • 1984
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Zina Rybakov
The Cosby Show
TV • 1984
Bernadette Foley
Entourage
TV • 2004
Rita Chase
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Rebecca
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Clara Lloyd
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
ABC Afterschool Special
TV • 1972
Sandy
Widows
TV • 2002
Dolly Rawlins
2 Broke Girls
TV • 2011
Olga
Frasier
TV • 1993
Kate Costas
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Lucia Barba
Monday Mornings
TV • 2013
Judge Beverly Natheson
Life in Pieces
TV • 2015
Mia
New Amsterdam
TV • 2018
Grace
NCIS
TV • 2003
Marie Quinn
Bull
TV • 2016
Judge Tessa Hudson
Psych
TV • 2006
Detective Goochberg
The Mysteries of Laura
TV • 2014
Val Santiani
Bull
TV • 2016
Judge Hudson
Accused
TV • 2023
Connie